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one of the three forts, placed near the city to support the 
earth on the side of a great declivity. 
The only church in Rsconbe: which is eres at the 
top of anacclivity, was ruined. The parish church, and some 
private houses in the little town of Scillato, were Baniren. 
In Gratteri, a large town south of Cephalu, inary * was sus- 
tained by the church of St. James and other houses on- 
siderable damage was sustained by various chure 
many private houses in Colesano, a town contain two 
thousand inhabitants, and situated on an inclined plain, on 
the eastern side of the mountains of Madonie. One of the 
Colleges de Maria was rendered uninhabitable. The hospi- 
tal, a grand fabric, was made a heap of ruins. The loss is 
calculated at about thirty thousand onze. In the vicinity of 
Pozzillo and St. Agata, through a large extent of land, many 
long fissures and caverns were made. Similar caverns and 
fissures in argillaceous chalk, were opened near the little 
town of Ogliastro, sixteen miles south-east of Palermo. At 
Isnello, at the feet of the Madonie mountains, the injuries 
which were received in 1819, were increased; Geraci, 
among the same mountains, suffered a like fortune in the: 
ruin of the cathedral ; Castelbuono, and St. Mauro, within 
the same regions, were damaged, both by the former, and b 
the last convulsions ; by the last, the cathedral, the church 
of St. Mauro, and five private houses suffered much. The | 
damage done to Castelbuono is reckoned at twenty-one thou- 
sand onze. 
The northern coast of Sicily, towards Cape Cefalu, after 
bending to form the eastern part of the great bay, included 
on the west by the mountains te the left of Palermo, extends — 
into the sea towards Eolie, (the Lipari selene) and presents, 
towards them, a hollow front, the western part of which is 
formed by cape Orlando, and the fe by cape Calava. 
Places situated about this bay, suffered the most violent con- 
vulsions. Nato, containing four thousand souls, and situated 
on an elevation, was almost entirely laid waste, and a great 
number of private houses destroyed ; the monastery, hospi- 
tal, the churches of St. Peter, anime del purgatorio, St. De- 
metrius, and the cathedral, were in a great aerate a 
thrown. ‘The Quartiere del Salvadore suffered | A 
transverse Cleft was made in the earth, and fears eee 5 an 
tained, lest the whole elevation upon which the city is built, 
should be overthrown. Only two persons lost their lives 5 
